a term used largely in industrialized countries to describe the forcing or coercing of a victim into unwanted sexual activity by a friend, romantic suitor, or peer through violence, verbal pressure, misuse of authority, use of incapacitating substances, or threat of violence. Although some prefer the more-inclusive term acquaintance rape, which does not imply any sort of romantic relationship between the rapist and the victim, both terms acknowledge the facts that the majority of women and men who are raped know their attackers and that the victim did not consent to sexual activity. The terms date rape and acquaintance rape were originally introduced into public health parlance in the 1980s in an attempt to dispel the myth that the majority of rapes occurred as random attacks by strangers. The concept of non-stranger rape was also used to give voice to sexual experiences that many victims believed had been nonconsensual but which were not criminal in nature because they occurred in...

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